The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1887-08-11
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THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST II. 1887.
HOW TOWNS ARE BUILT.

HOW TOWNS ARE BUILT.
Before you cook your rabbit you
must catch him. A town that ex-
poets to prosper in this country must
so spread its nets as to capture live
men energetic men, progressive
men. A town with any natural adj
yantages at all will succeed if its cit
liens are energetic and enterprising.
For a community of live men will
not sit down and white white pine
and allow the town and its interests
to stand still A town must have
natural commercial advantages but
it might have all the advantages in
the world, and yet not prosper If its
citizens are so constituted as to be
willing to look after only their own
individual affairs.
Wichita, Kansas town, is an ex-
ample of what can be accomplished
by the energy, the enterprise and the
united public spirit Of its citizens.
Wichita has grown in year or two
from comparatively insignificant
little town to great trade and rail
road center. There has been an in
crease of over one thousand per cent
IN the value of real estate and an in
crease of over 10000 in population,
Lots in the town sell for more than
-, 0O0a front foot. What is the Sc
cret of this wonderful progress?
Let a business man of Wichita tell
the story:
"We organized. We held almost
nightly meetings, and among the first
things we agreed upon was to hang
together and stay by each other
through thick and thin.
ave advertised by hundreds of
thousands of circulars. We set forth
all our advantages in such manner
that strangers who were led by cir
culars to give usa call were not de-
ceiyed, but, on the contrary, agreed
that we had not put it as strong as
we might
Every town in the east of notori
ETY. was not only served with our cir
culars, but our newspapers. And
the newspaper advertising did double
duty. Our people made it rule to
ask all their friends to advertise.
'sWe then subscribed Tor a large
number Of copies, loaded with local
advertising and great advantages,
and eve found by conversing with
parties who finally came here pros
pecting that the full advertising col
umns of our papers which they had
seen did more than all else to i'm
press them with the growth and i'm
portance Of the place.
eve found then we could not
oyerdo this think that the more we
paid for these purposes the more
were our profits. Every new conner
was customer to most of our stores,
and while their advertising paid to
them rich returns, it served the dou-
BILE purpose to impress the eastern
man who had an eye TO business with
the fact that Wichita was rising
town, and thus we have gone on un-
til we have added population since
came here Of over 10000, and prop
erty has increased in business places
more than thOusand-fold and in the
country round about us the apprecia-
ton has been over 400 per cent.
( Il know as well as you can know
that printers ink is the best capital
to boom town. Had we not used
1t unsparingly Wichita would not
have been larger than Carthage. As
1t is, we will soon outrank any town
in the State
The moral of this obvious. There
is not a town in Georgia, nor in the
south, that can not achieve reason,
able degree of prosperity by blowing
its own horn.-Atlanta Constitution.
The above shows how towns are
built. What say the business of Ma.
rietta in using the same means tC
put Marietta forward? 1t kes or.
ganization to accomplish it.